While a majority of asset owners and asset managers (57 per cent) expect blockchain technology to be widely adopted in the investment industry in the next five years, only seven per cent currently have initiatives to support it, according to
FlexTrade Systems, a specialist in multi-asset execution management systems, has partnered with RSRCHXchange to provide buy-side traders with immediate alerts to the availability of relevant research via the company’s FlexTRADER EMS. Launched in September 2015, the RSRCHX platform was built in
While investors redeemed just under USD1.9 billion from hedge funds in April, performance gains helped boost assets by USD6.86 billion, bringing total hedge fund industry assets to USD2.986 trillion, according to eVestment’s latest Hedge Fund Flows report. According to report
Boutique prime broker Global Prime Partners has signed a partnership with RSRCHXchange, the online marketplace for institutional research, to provide its growing client base with access to research content. Global Prime Partners’ clients – including hedge funds, family offices
According to FTSE Russell’s third annual global institutional market survey, the percentage of asset owners currently evaluating smart beta has doubled from 15 per cent at the first survey in 2014 to 36 per cent in 2016, and 62 per cent
Worth Venture Partners, an emerging manager hedge fund platform headquartered in Manhattan, has released a new paper titled "Accessing Emerging Hedge Fund Returns – Seeking Return Over Size" as part of a series of commentaries, Worthy Insights. Investors are considering
The asset management industry faces a ‘triple whammy’ of challenges in 2016 – comprising a growing threat from disruptors, a tsunami of regulation and market turmoil – according to a new industry survey from Multifonds. Multifonds’ annual ‘Every Fund survey’,
The impact Dodd-Frank has had on the US Swaps market trading ecosystem is undeniable. The old standards of traditional over the counter (OTC) derivative trading have been thrown to the wind and trading on Swaps Execution Facilities (SEFs) has been
Risk Premia and Smart Beta, investment solutions traditionally defined as strategies that aim to capture risk-adjusted returns and improve portfolio diversification, remain at the forefront of investors’ agendas. That’s according to a recent survey of investors and intermediaries, primarily institutional,
The total automation rate of processed orders of cross-border funds reached 85.4 per cent in the last quarter of 2015, which represents an increase of 2.8 percentage points (p.p.) compared to the fourth quarter of 2014. That’s according to a
